Tag: Brooklyn
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WOODLAND TO REPLACE LANDFILL Mother Nature getting back 400 acres of f ormer dumps By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, December 3, 2000 Forget a tree. Soon, a forest will grow in Brooklyn. In East New York, to be exact. Atop the former dumps on Pennsylvania and Fountain Aves. now grow mugworts, fragmites, some switch grass here and there and the occasional ailanthus, the tree that grows in Brooklyn. The greenery doesn’t hide the…
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KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY No One Likes To Think About Dying, But Estate Planning Is Your Most Important Financial Obligation By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, April 25, 1999 It wasn’t long ago that Gerald and Toby Sindler thought estate planning – setting up trusts so heirs are not hard hit by inheritance taxes – was something that only the wealthy needed to worry about. “And we do not consider ourselves to be wealthy,” said Gerald, who owns Career Objectives,…
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A MALEVOLENT HULK Sunken ship continues to claim lives By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Wednesday, August 26, 1998 NEW YORK–On a foggy July night in 1956, 52 people died when the cruise ship Stockholm rammed the luxury liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. But 42 years later, even as the Andrea Doria lies a rusting hulk 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, its appetite for blood has not been…
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FENFLURAMINE STUDY HURT BOY: Single Dose of Controversial Drug Altered Personality, She Says By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Sunday, April 26, 1998 The Brooklyn woman said she got a letter telling her to bring her 8-year-old son to the state psychiatric institute for a survey on children whose older brothers had been convicted in Family Court of crimes as juveniles. “They wanted to do a study on my son to find out if…
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SENIOR CITY-ZENS; They left only to find there’s no place like home
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Horst Liepolt left New York City in 1995 for Berlin, where he was born 70 years ago, only to discover his heart belongs to the Big Apple. Ditto for Dolores White, now retired, who yearns to live in the city again. Howard and…
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Rudy Pooh-Poohs Dem Bigs’ Digs
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and LISA REIN Daily News Staff Writers With a comfortable lead in the polls, Mayor Giuliani yesterday refused to engage in a war of words with Democratic challenger Ruth Messinger — even allowing harsh comments from his predecessor, former Mayor David Dinkins, to go unchallenged. Dinkins, who…
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SAL WHO? Runs Strong 3rd
Wednesday, September 10, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JERE HESTER, Daily News Staff Writers Maverick City Councilman Sal Albanese surprised the experts again last night with a strong third-place finish in the Democratic mayoral primary. The 47-year-old Brooklyn lawmaker had 21% of the vote with 99% of ballots counted — a good showing by…
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Don’t Sell Cops Short, Says Rudy
Sunday, August 31, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and PAUL SCHWARTZMAN, Daily News Staff Writers A day after thousands protesting police brutality marched on City Hall, Mayor Giuliani yesterday sought to refocus attention on cops’ accomplishments while his chief rival took the day off. Eleven days before the Democratic primary, front-runner Ruth Messinger spent the…
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Plungers Waved In Angry March
Sunday, August 17, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, CAROLINA GONZALEZ and PAUL SCHWARTZMAN, Daily News Staff Writers Brandishing toilet plungers and chanting “KKK must go!” thousands of angry protesters yesterday descended on Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct, where two cops have been charged with torturing a Haitian immigrant. Pressed tightly against a line of cops standing behind…
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Whining Is Waste, Crew Sez to Union By MICHAEL O. ALLEN and DAVE SALTONSTALL, Daily News Staff Writers
Sunday, May 18, 1997 Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew yesterday told city teachers to raise the academic performance of their schools and “to do this within the context of not blaming people.” “Who has time to blame anyone?” Crew asked in a speech to more than 2,000 members of the city’s United Federation of Teachers, gathered…